distraction. and from adam, highlighting the differences will make it worse. success should be celebrated. it will only happen with the healthy economy. people are focusing on the sim pom a symptom and not the real problem. do i have time for one more? >> you do. >> aaron says the up and coming generation of voters is going to want something different. the political scheme is about to undergo a big, big change. thanks for your comments and it's good to be back. facebook.com/carolcnn. cnn "newsroom" continuing right now with don lemon. hi, don. >> your time is up but it's friday. >> 13th is over. >> have a great weekend. always a pleasure to see you. cnn "newsroom" continues. randi is off today and we have a busy hour.

so let's get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. that's not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. >> congress didn't consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that's a lot of paperwork. that's a lot of reports to prepare. that's not adding value. it's not making us safer. >> well, congress will have to approve a rewrite and republicans promise a careful review of that. military investigators say that

they have tracked down and interviewed at least two of the marines seen urinating on corpses in afghanistan. the video has gone viral. today the deputy commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan issued a directive, reminding troops, and i quote, we must treat the living and the dead with dignity and respect. defense secretary leon panetta is again warning iran not to close the strait of hormuz. iran has threatened to block it as the west and japan try to ratchet up sanctions. they say it's a red line which the u.s. will defend. could we be headed for another big airline merger? delta, u.s. airways, and private equity firm tpg are considering bidding for the parent company

of american airlines. two months ago, amr corp filed for bankruptcy. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is using tv ads to fight growing criticism over a company he helped to create. newt gingrich has questioned just how many jobs were cut while romney was at bain. fellow republican rudy giuliani told piers morgan the attacks were, quote, unfair, and said they sounded like an attack on a major republican belief, capitalism and the free market. but could all that backlash from the attacks be over? well, we'll talk about it. fair game is coming up. virginia is a big state with a big primary. that is fast approaching but so far there are only two major republican presidential candidates on that ballot. mitt romney and ron paul. that could all change after a challenge by governor rick perry is heard in court today. perry filed suit after he didn't

come up with the minimum 10,000 signatures to be on the march 6th ballot. jon huntsman and newt gingrich all facing the same predictment have joined in on perry's suit. it remains to be seen whether president obama can hold on to the broad support that put him in the white house in the first place but he's still got oprah. in south africa today preparing for a graduation ceremony at the girl's school she started in 2007, oprah tells cnn she's with obama 100%. >> everybody always asks, are you going to do what you did in 2008, what i did in 2008 because my froends didn't even know who he was. they were like, you think that guys going to be president? i go, yeah, i really do. >> the big o says if the president called her tomorrow and asked for her help, she would do whatever she thought would be of service. and take a look at what happens when you don't deliver on a promise to release an apple

product. oh, yeah, a crowd in beijing got a little out of hand when they learned they wouldn't be getting a new iphone 4s today. apple said the delay was for customer safety amid huge crowds. several police officers had to help in the mayhem. some threw eggs at the apple store and some pushed back against the police. joran van der sloot learned his fate. he was sentenced to 28 years in prison. he pleaded guilty to murdering stephany flores in 2010. van der sloot was detained twice but never charged in the disappearance of natalee holloway, who was declared dead legally yesterday. if you don't know a lot about mormonism, join the crowd. but with romney closer to victory, expect to hear a lot more about it. coming up next, we want to break through the mormon mystery. a mormon 101, if you will.

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today is what we call face time. tell me what these faces have in common. there we have harry reid, glenn beck, gladys knight and mitt

romney. would it help if i threw in jon huntsman? they are mormon. some by birth and others not so much. mormons are less than 2% of the u.s. population. to the other 98%, it is a source of mystery, a source of suspicion or comedy. written by the creators of south park, meet the mormons is a smash hit musical on broadway. so let's explore this a little bit. susan henry is a dean of the chapel and religious light right here in atlanta and coordinates student religious groups from all of the major faiths. so, doctor, why don't we know -- thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> why don't we know more about

mormonism? >> it's one of the knewer traditions in america and i think that has a lot to do with some of the mystery and misunderstanding and some of the discrimination around mormonism. >> and that's why it is a mystery, is it just because of the unknown or -- >> i think it's -- yeah, a lot of it ha has to do with the unknown and many don't have friends who are mormon. >> do we have the same feelings, though, about other religions? if they are unknown to us, is there something unique about mormonism? >> sometimes we do and sometimes we don't. there are some things unique about mormonism and one of those is that it's in the christian family and it's not always claimed by other christians. >> i read when i was in college and the mormon bible arrived and my roommate who was evangelical said, get that out. it is blas fem mouse to have that in the home. it arrived out of know where i get it. i get it.

let's go through a few points here, can we? the lds faith was started in america? >> yes. >> by -- >> it spread westward to ohio, the illinois area and then to utah and now there are mormons all over the country and the world. >> god is physical beings with physical bodies. >> they are. most christians claim to be unitarian and mormons say that they claim the same mission and purpose of jesus but the whole question of the trinity is of the holy spirit and that is an issue that is not so much clarified. >> all right. families are eternal. is that such a bad thing? no. >> no, it's not. mormons teach that families are eternal, that marriage is not just for life but for eternity

and other christian families do not always claim that. >> is that when we say ashes to ashes, dust to dust, but everyone is part of your family, not just your physical family when you're here? >> that's right. can i just make a point about that? >> sure. go ahead. the name of mormon, the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, referring to their understanding is not so far away. >> one of the mysteries that is difficult to reconcile. >> is there have you seen this

campaign? as far as i know, mitt romney has nothing to do with it and it's coincidental. what do you make of those? do you think that helps? >> i think it does because it humanizes and it says that mormons are our neighbors and i think it's a really good campaign. >> do you think there is growing acceptance? >> i do. i think that mormons have suffered from discrimination and the more that we as a society know about the mormons, the more that they will be accepted and there will be appreciation and respect. >> doctor, thank you. >> it's a pleasure to be with you. thank you so much. >> coming up next on cnn, an 8-year-old boy, body riddled with cancer suffers a cruel death. why? because he got no medical treatment. wait until you hear why.

in today's crime and consequence, we have a question for all parents. what would you do if your child was sick not just for a day or two but over a period of time and he or she begged to see a doctor but you couldn't afford it? in ohio, parents of 8-year-old willy robertson didn't do anything when he complained about a swelling in his neck. they say they didn't have the money. well, unfortunately he died. now they are pleading guilty to attempted involuntary manslaughter. jeffrey toobin joins us from new york. what is a parent's

responsibility when their child is sick? >> it's an awful tragedy. the legal term for parent is guardian. and you have to guard your children. you have a legal obligation to take care of them. this is not a friend. it's not a sibling. a parent is a guardian and even when there are difficulties like this, doing nothing in the face of a serious illness is a crime for a parent and we see it often in situations where religions counsel people not to bring kids to doctors and that's a crime, too. parents are legally obligated to take care of their kids. >> here's my question, though. it's mostly a judgment call when kids are sick, kids often complain about pains or whatever and it's a judgment call for a parent to decide when something is serious or not. we have to judge whether they have a cold, a flu, but kids complain a lot.

what is criminal and what is not? >> well, i think the facts here suggest that this was not a close call. obviously parents have wide, wide discretion in deciding when to bring their kids to the doctor. the law almost never gets involved in these situations. but if you look at the fact in this case, the fact that the parent, we're told by social workers to go to a doctor, that they went and spent $87 on getting their dog ridded with frees but wouldn't spend, it appears, to take them to the doctor, the length of the illness, the severity of which he appeared to be sick, all of that added up. plus, of course, the tragic fact that he died was the reason that they had to go to an emergency

room, can they or can they not be turned away. >> hospitals are legally obligated to treat people who are in the middle of a medical emergency and, you know, this would be a very different case if the parents here did go to an emergency room and they were turned away. then the legal responsibility might well have gone to the hospital. but the point here and it's a very important point is that the parents didn't even try. it's an awful situation when people don't have health insurance. obviously at some level we have to be at least somewhat sympathetic because they lost a child and, you know, that's one of the worst things that can happen to anybody. but, you know, you have to try harder than they did and the law is pretty clear on that. >> and i think the key here is that they were told by people who have some understanding of children in authority said you should go to the doctor and get

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i want to follow up now on a story we brought you a few weeks ago that begs a simple question. what could you do with $104,000, $374,000, how about $406,000, or how about $666,000? think about it. i want you to keep those dollar figures in mind because that's

how much your tax dollars, the money the federal government is spending on alternative medical treatments. the chicago tribune did a whole lot of digging into this investigating and undercovered branch of the institutes of health. four months. her name is venus. she poured over hundreds of pages of the agency's documents. she's in chicago now. she's the medical reporter who uncovered this and she joins us live. are you doing okay? >> yeah. thanks so much, don. it is cold here. >> yeah, it is cold. the dollar figures that i told you about, remember those? trina, you found that they spent a whole lot of money on studies like this. $104,000 on energy healing based on a self-described healer.

$374,000 on whether lemon and lavender scents can heal and $406,000 on coffee enimas. and don't forget, these are your tax dollars. this only scratches the surface, right? >> that's right. we found when we looked that $1.4 billion was spent of our taxpayer money. $1.2 billion on research. a lot of the studies had dubious value, we found. >> so, listen, weapon spoke to a doctor a few weeks ago and my colleague, randi kaye, brought up some of these studies saying that concede by alternative

medicine and senator harkin of ohio. i was critically important that they continue to help people with their lives. senator harkin to help with the treatment. >> i think the bottom line is we don't have infinite money to spend on research. we have about $30 million for the nih in total every year and that covers everything from cancer to autism to infectious diseases to heart disease. that's all the money we spent. so the question is, is this where we want to spend our money? and that's not a question that i have an answer to.

i think it's a worthwhile question and nih funding being flat or dropping in the coming years. i think it's asking whether this is where we want to spend our money. >> does this depend on how you feel about therapies because fortunately i don't have cancer but if someone has cancer or hiv or whatever, wouldn't you say, whatever it takes, if it works, i want to know if it works or not? >> well, i think what that coffee enima prot poe call, when protocol, they found that folks that had pancreatic cancer and did no chemotherapy, i think in the end it's not super surprising. there's not really any good evidence that it would work in

the first place and we spent over a million dollars in total and looking into that treatment so critics can ask, well, could we have spent that money better on more promising treatment for pancreatic cancer? so i think that's the question to ask. >> good stuff. thank you, trina. stay warm there in chicago. appreciate you joining us here on cnn. >> thank you so much. thanks a lot, don. those who thought mitt romney was going to sail to victory, they got a wake-up call and his name is newt. a poll that shows gingrich isn't going anywhere any time soon. is he a real threat and what is up with his brand-new bizarre attack ad against romney. first, a political junkie question for you. what percentage of voters call themselves born again or evangelical christians in the 2008 south carolina gop primary? tweet your answer to donlemoncnn

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before the break i asked what percentage of voters were born again or evangelical in the 2008 south carolina primary?

the answer was 60%. congratulations to arthur from toronto. this is the part of the show where we go to the heart of the political debate where all sides are fair game with the south carolina primary just a week away. we have a new poll to show you. here it is. when you factor in the sampling error, mitt romney, newt gingrich are tied at the top. look at that. 29%, 25%, ron paul not far at 20% and perry, santorum, and huntsman in single digits. joining me now is crystal wright. cnn contributor, maria cardona. maria, what do you make of this new poll? >> i think that it demonstrates that gingrich's contrast against romney is working. it's unfortunate for him and i think for everybody in the republican party who's desperate

for anybody but a romney candidate that those contrasts came so late in the game. if gingrich and others brought it to romney earlier, he would have a better chance. he's within the har jin of error and south carolina is several days away. anything can happen. mitt romney needs to be worried about what they are saying about him. it's resonating with south carolina voters. >> rush limbaugh, rudy giuliani is among the rivals saying, knock it off. knock it off. listen to this. listen to this. >> massachusetts moderate mitt romney will say anything to win and he speaks french, too. >> okay. so, listen, crystal, here's a thing that people are saying.

the obama re-election campaign won't really have to say anything. they will just play things like that, things coming out of newt gingrich's mouth, rick santorum's mouth. they will just play it. >> well, you know, the reality is, people like rush limbaugh and karl rove like to think that they are calling the shots that kind of remind me that "american idol" judges, the so-called republican establishment and what newt's rise in south carolina shows us is that the voters have not finished deciding. conservative voters want a boulder choice. south carolina is the typical south. they've got social conservatives and i think what is key here is what is good for the goose is not good for the gander. and it's faces music on bain.

if you're the heir parent, romney, face the music on bain, answer the questions now rather than later. obama is going to raise them. >> let me jump in here. what's wrong with speaking french? what's wrong with being bilingual or trilingual? >> well, look, this -- >> you've got to speak bilingual. >> and crystal and i actually talked about this earlier and i agree with her, it's not a bad thing. but unfortunately, among men in the republican party, they use this very effectively against rick perry and it worked the you. the under lying message is that this guy is a little less unamerican, less baseball and apple pie and it's very subconscious and it works. they want it to seep in with voters that, look, this guy is not like us.

>> maria is right, it's subliminal. >> why does that work? because you heard rick santorum saying that he's an elitist for the obama people to say for people to go to college and then you have this ad saying it's elitist if you speak another language. i don't understand. >> it didn't work with huntsman. it didn't work when romney tried to jab at huntsman when he spoke mandarin. that blew up in his face. people were like, what? we are not at war with the french, folks. hello? and people today -- >> that's true, crystal. >> many people today speak different languages. but to maria's point, it's trying to jab at, you're not american enough and i think it's a nonissue. >> here's where i think it will work with romney. it's just not the french with him, it's a fact that he's a millionaire, 200 times over, the fact that he makes $10,000 bets, 10 cents for you and me.

it's the fact that he look at a $1500 tax cut as temporary little band-aids. >> he's hanging out with the 1%. i think that's part of the santorum among republican blue collar voters and that's part of the attack at bain tal is this guy doesn't get what americans are going through. >> if you ask any single person in america who doesn't have the money that romney has, if they'd like to trade bank accounts with mitt romney, crystal, what do you think the answer would? >> the 99% would be like, i'll take it. he needs to talk about his tenure at bain in a positive light. i may have laid off people for the good of the local economy and the ability to create more

jobs down the road and, by the way, obama has killed 1.7 million jobs it's kind of ridiculous. >> here's why -- >> one at a time, ladies. hang on, maria. crystal, let her finish. hold on. >> all right. >> complete sentence so the audience can understand. go ahead, crystal. >> when romney starts talking about the 13 million people unemployed in this country because of barack obama's failed policies and the 1.7 million jobs barack obama has caused to be shedded and how it's a -- i think it will resonate with

voters but he's got to pivot off of this response to the gingrich desperation french ad. >> five seconds. >> his focus on bain was making himself wealthy, his investors wealthy, period. >> he never said that. you said that maria. >> thank you very much, maria and crystal. that's fair game. >> thank you, don. be sure to keep it right here on saturday as results come in from the south carolina primary. join wolf blitzer e. anderson cooper, erin burnett. if you're a christian, you certainly know about john 3:16. the bible verse being seen and heard around the world because of this man right here, tim tebow. if you're feeling left out, don't worry, we've got you

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all right. it's that time of year. the saints are taking on the 49ers. on sunday you'll see the houston texans against the baltimore ravens followed by giants versus

the green bay packers. tim tebow led an impressive takedown against the pittsburgh steelers last weekend however, there's one thing that you cannot deny. even the script turs marked on his face on game day, one of which has been john 3:16 hint, that is what is being broken down in a special series. explain it to me. >> reporter: john 3:16 is a verse from the bible that reads, for god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. that verse comes from the gospel

of john and it's a conversation between jesus and one of the teachers of the law and in the new testament it's favored by a lot of christians in terms of getting their message out because it not only explains what jesus does but why he does it and one of the main focuses for them is sharing their faith and because this verse disstels down the message so clearly that god loves you, that we are all doomed and have eternal life. and there was a group from birmingham to encourage people to look up john 3:16.

it was banned from the broadcast because they said it was too religious in its message. the group for the back and got a lot of publicity as a result. in the first playoff game against the pittsburgh steelers, of course tim tebow's whole life has been sharing about bible vers and he would write bible verses below his eyes. john 3:16 became very popular in the 1980s through sporting

events. especially especially good at getting himself in front of cameras during sporting events. since then, christians have been bringing plaques of john 3:16 to sporting events. it's a pretty easy way to convince them of what your core message really is. >> all right. if you want to read more about this, it's fascinating. check out our incredible belief blog at cnn.com, one of the most popular blogs on cnn.com. go to cnn.com/belief. okay. it's only ten centimeters long. how much damage can it really do? all right? apparently quite a lot. why the six-person space station crew is kicking it into high gear. plus, if you've ever left behind some loose coins going

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stale wants to find the four convicted murderers whom the out-going governor pardoned this week. one ex-inmalt has just been found as a matter of fact by cnn. reporter martin savidge just sat down in mississippi with anthony mccray, third from the left on your screen. sent to prison for killing his wife in 2001. mccray said he is sorry, he has found god and he wants to get to know his grown children. he says he is not on the run and

plans to be in court for a hearing later this month even though it would seem he is free and clear. but that's not fully clear. since the state constitution says pardon requests have to be published 30 days before they are granted. that wasn't the case here. we can see mccray's exclusive interview tonight "ac 360" 8:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. well, today for our street level, we take you far, far away from the ground. right into outer space as a matter of fact where the international space station is trying to get out of the way of space junk if debris is a little bigger than a softball but could make a deadly hole if it hits the space station. unlike the last time this happened, astronauts will not have to scramble into the "so z "soyuz" escape craft. a man was decapitated in a horrifying accident. martin lara was trimming trees when he got tangled in something that got caught in a wood chipper which then got caught

around his neck and it decapitated him. the time s. his crew heard his cries for help and ran to assist him, he was already dead. let's go to paris where furniture company is conducting a very unique experiment. welcome to the ikea apartment. there it is. it is a tiny home created in a subway station and furnish we'd the company's products an five people are actually living there for nearly a week with their daily routine documented on video. they hopes to show customers it can make any space feel comfortable enough to call home even at a subway stop. did you leave any change behind at the security last time you flew? well, the tsa is reporting that they collected more than $400,000 in change left behind by passengers like you at security checkpoint in 2010. dimes, quarters, nickels, pennies, dollar coins weren't the only currency left behind. there was 32 grand in foreign currency, as well. the most change was left at jfk

airport in new york followed by l.a.x., san francisco, and m.i.a. now to grenich, new york, where one school is using a dog as their crossing guard. this german shepherd may look like she's just walking back and forth every day but she's actually keeping kids out of harm's way. offy is her name. she is accompanied by her owner. they are the newest crossing guards. look at that. she even has a pint-size stop sign. she's so cute. they work two shifts a day, before and after school brings smiles to children's days while keeping them safe. very nice. and lastly, we're going to go back to minnesota. this story is in benson where a local has become the first civilian in the u.s. to get a new bionic hand. his name is matt. he lost his arm in a rock crushing machine. but thanks to the michael angelo hand he will be back at work in no time.

advanced arm dynamics created the prosthetic that includes a posable thumb since matt still has his nerves, wires, and electrodes let him handle it, i should say, a lot like his natural hand does. until now the michael angelo had only been available to ten soldiers who served in iraq and afghanistan. man, science, innovation, amazing. forget about newt gingrich, ron paul for a moment. mitt romney has other stiff competition in south carolina. as funny as it sounds for romney, it may not be a laughing matter at all. that's next. tired eye relief with hydroblend™, only from visine®. just one drop instantly soothes and revives tired, overworked eyes. and comforts them for up to ten hours. visine® tired eye relief. try now and save $3.

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are you fed up with all the bickering among the presidential hopefuls? if you are you might want to consider, stephen colbert, as funny as that may sound, south carolina native son dropped the strongest hint yet that he may enter the state's primary. >> i am proud to announce that i am forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for my possible candidacy for the president of the united states of south carolina. i'm doing it! >> well, presumably colbert is poking fun at the country's presidential nomination process. you never know with stephen,

though, you but recall he tried this back in 2007 only bob blocked by the state's filing fee. stay tuned. for a political update from south carolina, peter ham by joins us from duncan. peter, tell us what's going on exactly. does stephen stand a chance? what do you think? >> reporter: stephen colbert? no, because he can't get on the ballot. there's no write-in space. he can't even run. i think it's all a charade at this point, frankly. sorry. sorry, stephen colbert fans here in south carolina. lit be a smek tackle if he does it. last time, don, i was down here he had huge crowds, bigger crowds than some of the candidates but he won't be able to be on the ballot this time, don. >> do you have to rain on colbert's parade? i mean, come on. >> reporter: sorry about that. but there are some real candidates here tonight, don, in duncan. duncan is, you know, there is going to be a forum behind me in a high school cafeteria. this is the heart of the evangelical state of south

carolina. newt gingrich and rick santorum are going to come here tonight and face questions from a pair of congressmen and party activists about where they stand on the issues. but again, this is the real battleground for evangelicals and rick santorum in particular is talking a lot about faith on the campaign trail. here's a flavor of what he's stay saying to be stump here in south carolina. >> it's not just about the economy. the economy is very important. we're all concerted about making it and providing for ourselves and our family and growing and prospering as a nation. and we just feel that we have the economic plan to get this done, to strain government, to grow this economy, create better jobs. but there's also another issue that t a least i felt was being short and that's the importance of being a family in our society. >> reporter: so santorum's pitch there is actually pretty good,

you know, if he's talking to these sort of voters. it's about the economy and evangelicals and social conservatives care about the economy. number one issue for republican voters, but he's also hammering the faith family, abortionish shurks g shoes, gay marriage. they appear to be dividing the vote leaving mitt romney space to skate through next saturday in the primary vote, don. >> all right. peter hamby, duncan, south carolina. we appreciate it. so, i'm don lemon. i want to thank you for watching. in the meantime, here is brook baldwin. she's going to get you caught up on everything today. hi, brooke. >> we'll see you on tv this weekend. hi, everyone, i'm brooke baldwin. let's get you caught up on everything making news. rapid fire. let's go. beginning with this story just in to us here in the "cnn newsroom." cnn has caught up with one of the convicted killers who was his pardon in mississippi this week. in an exclusive interview with

our own correspondent martin savidge, anthony mccray says he has found good changed his life. mccray worked if the governor's office and apparently talked to haley barbour daily on a work detail. he tells cnn he will be in court on the 23rd and is not on the run. we're going to have much more on this story coming up tonight in that exclusive interview as well, so stay tuned for that. now, to this. the main suspect in the disappearance of natalie holloway is going to prison for murdering a woman in peru. peruvian judges sentenced joran van der sloot to 28 years today for beating and strangling 21-year-old stephanie flory flo death. van der sloot was arrested twice in natalee holloway's disappearance in '05 but never charged. in texas, mother's suv was stolen but she is finally feeling pretty lucky right now. her 18-month-old son at the time

was asleep inside of her jeep that was stol len but surveillance video of a store parking lot shows exactly what went down last night. and mother says she left her jeep just running for a moment so she could go inside the store. >> i left my son and my niece in the car because it was very, very cold out here and it's windy and i had just gotten them bundled up and i didn't want to take them back out. as i running out i saw my niece running towards me screaming my name and my car going down the road. i dropped everything and ran towards the car. >> houston police found her baby boy in the suv this morning behind a strip mall not too far from that store. missing montana schoolteacher has been found dead. the fbi says they have one suspect in custody. sherry arnold was missing for six days. her school district announced the news of her death just a copple hours ago. she went running last saturday morning and never returned. search crews discovered one of her shoes but that was the only clue they made public. and in washington, president

obama today spoke before a group of business owners at the white house just a couple hours ago, promising a leaner, more responsible government. listen in. >> i'm calling on congress to reinstate the authority that past presidents have had to streamline and reform the executive branch. this is the same sort of authority that every business owner has to make sure that his or her company keeps pace with the times. let me be clear. i will only use this authority for reforms that result in more efficiency, better service, and a leaner government. >> president today also an odd case of stranger danger. police in california say they arrested a woman because she bit two children. 46-year-old polyis charge with felony charge abuse. the incident happened at a book store in the san francisco area. mother was in the children's section when her 2-year-old

daughter was bitten. >> some other woman came up to the lady's little girl and then the girl started running to her mother saying that lady bit me. suddenly the little boy who was just a couple months old started screaming. they went to him and his cheek was bleeding. >> biting children. police say the woman ran out of the store but they found her in a nearby coffee shop. authorities say the pilot of this plane here in the thick of some trees had been drinking when he landed there. this is rural wisconsin. neighbors say he climbed on down, walked over to a barn and slept for a couple of hours before knocking on their door. despite the scene, he only had minor injuries. and much more news to come here over the course of the next two hours, including this. elite marines sent to war to fight and sometimes killed. now, several of them are being questioned over this video that

shows them desecrating enemy bodies. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. oh, to be a fly on the wall in this room. dozens of social conservatives meeting to discuss whether to unite and back one candidate for president. but is that candidate currently in the race? >> you need to take your child out of this sglool young students allegedly locked in scream rooms. but wait until you hear what parents say happened behind closed doors. plus, he's a "rolling stone" writer whose article took down general stanley mccrystal. now michael hastings is revealing what military men at the highest level told him over drinks. he joins me live. and -- >> security are running down here now and the mall but continuing to follow them. >> reporter: chaos and violence, all over iphones. cnn takes you inside the madness.

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news here at cnn. europe has been on high alert. we now learned according to afp, a french news outlet that standard & poor's has downgraded france's aaa rating. downgraded from aaa. we have l. have much more at the closing bell in less than two hours. we'll see what that could mean for us. meantime, let's talk about something all of you have been talking about. everyone knows what they did. and now the military knows who they are. military investigators say they have now identified all of those four marines in the video that appears to show them urinating

on corpses. i want to preface this by saying you may find it disturbing. take a look. >> i want to bring in pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, now that the brass knows who these men are, what happens to them potentially? >> well, things are moving very quickly into the legal phase, brooke. they have identified all four. they've interviewed at least two of them. q we know the marine corps put a

general in charge of the overall investigation. the criminal investigation being conducted by the ncis, the navy criminal investigative service, as well as a separate administrative investigation. and that's a signal that this is expanding just a little bit. they want to look and see if there was some breakdown, if you will, of discipline at the higher levels, were there higher-ups that weren't watching and weren't commanding t. appropriately over these lower-ranking marines, was there a breakdown of unit discipline, was there a possibility of other incident snsz we don't know. these are some of the questions they are now going to start looking into, brok. >> barbara starr, i know you will continue to follow it. thank you. i want to bring in now michael hastings, contributing editor for "rolling stone". in 2010 he wrote that article that led to the resignation of the top u.s. commander in afghanistan. that being general stanley mccrystal. michael has this new book here called "the operators."

but before we get to that, michael, we will be remiss not to discuss this video. i know you've reported from afghanistan. you've talked, had incredible access to privates to generals. first question, something we really sort of mulled over this morning is, how often does something like this happen when cameras aren't around? did you see or hear anything of this? >> no. i would say it's -- this sort of digital trophy taking is fairly common. even on my own cell phone i have a photo that a soldier sent me a few months ago of an afghan they killed in action a few years ago. so these photos are fairly common. now, exactly doing what the marines we see the marines doing, that i would think would be a little more uncommon. >> uncommon. you spent time -- >> for that specific act. >> sure. you would never ever heard of anyone doing something like that before? >> well, there was an incident in iraq where a u.s. soldiers

have thrown a bottle of urine at iraqi civilians live on the street. i mean, i think there's one thing that we sort of forget. marines and infantry men are caught to break the biggest taboo we have in civilization, which is don't kill people. but they're trained to do that. so it's a very, very decision once you unleash the dogs of war to then say, oh, well, these people who have been trying to kill you that you just killed, you should treat their bodies with respect. and i think also, one of the things that frustrates me, these marines now that they've named them, they're going to be punished for it and they should be, but the people who really should be on trial, it should be general petraeus, general john allen, it should be the military leaders who yet ten years in have put ore soldiers and marines in this situation where this is happening. >> let me jump in because that springboards into my next question which, is of course, you know, i want to ask you about the mindset of some of the marine, some young. you had access to very high brass in africa. c -- afghanistan. can you at all trace this

attitude traceable up the chain, does it reflect commanders' attitudes at all? >> i would say it probably does on a certain level. i mean, i would -- >> probably does. what does that mean? >> i would say that if we injected our generals with truth serum and asked them how they felt about the afghan people they would not say they love them, is what i mean. and i think there has been a breakdown in discipline from the top. it was explicit in my reporting on general mcchrystal but this sort of contempt for common sense that we've seen where we have, you know, again, ten years in and we have, you know, general john allen and these other top generals saying we want the more years, i mean, if that's not a breakdown in discipline, to try to wage an endless war, i don't know what is. obviously i'm not talking -- no general is out there doing this sort of thing, that's viewed in the video. but i would wonder if there are aren't a lot of other incidents on the ground that are happening all the time and that we don't

know about them because they don't get leaked. >> i was talking to a marine captain just yesterday and i asked him is this possible that this is happening but folks up the chain wouldn't even know about it including himself, he said, yes, brooke, absolutely. you've been quite critical of the u.s. strategy in afghanistan. is there something flawed, michael, in america's policy in the region that leads to what we see in that video? >> well, yes, we shouldn't be there. we shouldn't be there trying to nation build. that's the flaw. the question we always have to ask ourselves about afghanistan is what we're going is what we're doing there make us safer, does it protect us from terrorists, does it protect us from al qaeda? we don't know the full circumstances of what kind of firefight those afghans were killed in. but i guarantee you the killing of those afghans and then the urinating on them did nothing to make america safer. >> michael stand by because obviously we brought you on. want to talk to you about this book on afghanistan and the amazing access you had to the

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a north carolina man killed three of his co-workers and wounded a fout rth at a lumber company. 50-year-old ronald dean davis opened fire and then fled the scene. they say they found him inside his home with a gunshot wound to his head. at this moment, he is clipging to life in a hospital. now let's pick up where we left off. for this i got to take you back to april of 2010.

"rolling stone" reporter gets unprecedented level of access to the man at the time in charge of the u.s. war effort in afghanistan, general stanley mccrystal. so he follows mccrystal and his entourage from paris to berlin trying to sell their native allies on their strategy and then to afghanistan. what he observes, the drunken nights, the disrespect for their bosses in the white house, the anger of the troops in the field, all of this, these details,nd up in this july 2010 issue of "rolling stone." inside he's one of the most explosive articles ever written in the decade long war in afghanistan. the title "the run away general" and it spells theed end of mc l mexpanded now in this new book, called "the operators." michael, we already heard your

criticism a moment ago. you said, look, we shouldn't even be in afghanistan. critical of the counter insurgency. strategy in the book. general mccrystal forced to resign after you exposed his conduct in that "rolling stone" article. my question is, did president obama force him out for the right reasons? >> i mean, i never really weigh in on whether or not general mccrystal should have been let go or not. i think clearly this wasn't -- the rolling stone -- what he said in rolling stone and after the "rolling stone" story came out, that wasn't general mcchrystal, he was critical of vice president biden a number of times. the white house felt very burned by the pentagon during the entire afghan strategy review. so i look at this as one of the steps that president obama has taken to reclaim or retake

control of the pentagon. >> okay. one of the steps. there is now infamous moment in this article that you expand on in this book, so you have mcchrystal talking to his top adviser about joe biden, vice president. are you asking about vpd biden? mcchrystal said with a laugh, who is that? biden, jake said. did you say bite me? he finished off with another jab about the president. for all their disrespect you say biden was actually the only one who was right when it comes to strategy in afghanistan. why do you say that? >> i would say if vice president biden had had his way in the strategy discussion of two years ago we would not be looking at that video that we just showed earlier today because what vice president biden advocating for was a limited footprint of american soldiers and marines in afghanistan to focus on this specific counter terrorism

mission. meaning, specifically target the terrorists, the al qaeda-linked terrorist who threatened the united states homeland. that's what vice president biden wanted to do and that's where actually we're on the path now. where we're heading towards that path. >> counter terrorism plus is what he calls it. i also wanted to ask you -- >> ct plus. right. >> on the front of your book, right, in the right-hand is a glass, i don't know, scotch, whiskey, whatever it is. i just have to ask you about the role of alcohol in your book because you write about mcchrystal's favorite beer being bud light lime, he worships the beer. alcohol peppered throughout the book. why focus so much on that? >> for me, part of it is to get a sense of how these guys really live their lives. remember, general mccrystal is one of the most successful special forces operators in american history. and his staff was these, you know, outrageous bunch of

characters who were very, very talented, very ambitious, and very willing to accept all sorts of risks. that comes along -- ulysses grant was drunk all the time. mcarthur, these are these huge personalities. so booze came to represent this sort of release and this intoxication. and i like to look at sort of metaphorically, you know, that there has been this intoxication not just with booze but with endless war, with this sort of the power that has come from the pentagon's ability to wage two wars for the past ten years. so there's a metaphor call thing. plus, i want people to get inside of like, you know, it's kind of like, you know, we just -- we're so used to these pictures of heroes, these kind of clean scrub pictures. whenever you can get a couple of shots of whiskey into a story, it makes for a better copy. that's for sure. >> final question. after, you know, you wrote the article on "rolling stone," of course, now the book. i know you've been in touch with

some of the people you wrote about. tell me about any kind of fallout from that article. what have they said to you. >> clearly, they were not too please with the result of the story. and i have been in contact with them. and they've maintained a very professional -- professional level of behavior with me personally. now, on the side of that there has been a fairly sustained campaign from general mcchrystal and their allies. there were two pentagon investigations, i've been banned from going on embeds. and you see a pretty consistent leak campaign that tries to undermine "rolling stoneses" reportering. it's been unsuccessful though. "rolling stone" continues to do great work. i was able to put this book out and doing my best to give the accurate pictures of the war in afghanistan and the guys who are running them. >> your book is "the operators." michael hastings, a play sure. thank you so much for coming on.

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coalescing around a single candidate. tony perkins is on the phone with me literally on a plane headed to houston. let me ask you quickly, sir, have conservative evangelicals, have they written off mitt romney or are you just determined to get behind someone else? >> no, i think there's a level of uncomfortibility there. i think there's a desire not to repeat what took place in 2008 when conservatives were kind of segmented behind various candidates and not the strongest strongest candidate emerged. john mccain went forward to get the nomination but not win the presidency. >> are you -- are we talking potentially someone else getting in the race or are you holding out that hope or do evangelicals simply have to get behind gingrich or santorum here? >> who is in the race is what we have. i think people are going to be there who are supportive of rick perry, people who are supportive of ring santorum and newt gingrich as well. i do see a consensus beginning

to build. now, i don't think there's going to be a unanimous decision about a particular candidate but i do think you will see increasingly some individuals come out supporting one candidate or -- i'll just say around one candidate, the next week or so 12k3w 12k3w. >> so once this group, once you build a consensus, you will get behind let's say candidate x. what resources can you group bring to this candidate here? >> well, i just think it's a matter of showing momentum behind a particular candidate and seeing very constituencies, especially in south carolina. south carolina is going to be telling. whoever win there's, mitt romney has a repeatable that took place in new hampshire, i think it's pretty much his path to the nomination. but this is much different than new hampshire. you've got 55% of the vote are evangelica evangelicals. the outcome could be much different there. it's a good place for a rick

santorum and the ground is pretty fertile for newt gingrich as well. >> i appreciate it on the phone about the pushoff from baton rouge to houston. appreciate it, sir. let's to go straight to, we were talking to south carolina. let's go to duncan, south carolina, to peter hamby in this conservative area near spartanburg. you just heard from tony they're hoping to coalesce around this one candidate already in the race. a lot of talk as he mentioned perhaps what happens in south carolina, perhaps that area where you are can be a harbanger of where you come. >> reporter: greenville and spar tanburg counties, the brand of republican here is a social conservative. there's a lot of business folks here as well but there's many ejanuary vel calls and they make up the dominant share of the republican vote in the primary. tonight here in duncan, there is going to be a forum moderated by

two u.s. house members. rick santorum and newt gingrich will be pitching ideas to party activists here to try and win them over. tony talked about them ral leg behind one or the other. they're both pitching a really conservative message out there and the vote is divided at this point. listen to what newt gingrich had to say with jim acosta here today down in florida. this gives you the flavor of the message they're trying to push. >> very much in the massachusetts tradition, he appointed liberal judges who were pro abortion. he appointed liberal judges who were for gay marriage. he helped planned parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the united states. he raised taxes. his entire site called romneytaxes.com. i think that's a record what makes him very uncomfortable. he would like to not talk about it, but it's a fact. >> reporter: so i think that's the kind of language you're going to hear tonight at this forum, brooke. obviously economy is the number

one concern on voters' minds and these candidates are aware of that. but you are going to hear them lace their pitches tonight with references to, you know, mitt romney sort of squishy position or past position, rather, on things like abortion and same-sex marriage, brooke. >> what is romney doing to count their in south carolina, to win over the tea party voter, social conservatives. do they think they're making progress? do they think they have a real shot come january 21st? >> reporter: yeah. as the romney team gains out south carolina it looks like iowa. they realize in a splintered field they only need a plurality of the votes. they need to do well among some of them. if he outperforms on this state on primary night it's going to be a very good night for them. they're touting mitt romney's faith. they don't mention his mormon faith but they do mention his stance that he is pro life, they say in the mail pieces. but they're confident he can win this state without winning over the voter '. they can appeal to the other parts of the state where there's a strong military presence,

moderate voters it in state. the economy is number one. romney is pitch perfect on the economy for republican voters with his business background. brooke? peter hamby, thank you, in south carolina for us. now this. security are running down here now by the mall. i continue to follow them. >> stan grant in the midst of this mob. what are they looking for? apple iphone 4,s. they got so violent the apple store kept its doors closed to people trying to get their hands on these new phones. why all of this outrage? coming up next, digging deeper for you into china's obsession with apple. all things apple. stay right here. [ male announcer ] why do we grow quaker oats? because there are mountains to climb. ♪ dreams to be realized. ♪ new worlds to be explored and hearts to be won. quaker oats.

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remember the throngs of americans, perhaps you were in the midst of the crowds waiting in line to buy the latest iphone this past year? if you thought that was a scene, check out china. these two men, they're security guards for an apple store. this is in beijing. this mob is made up of angry customers who could not buy the apple iphone 4s today because of this. craziness. apple has suspended now all instore sales of the 4s in beijing and shanghai. it is quite honestly just worried about people's safety. cnn's stan grant was in the thick of it all as it went down.

>> reporter: it wasn't supposed to be like this, eggs pelted at the apple store, people furious. then tempers reaching boiling point. angry potential apple customers viscously attacking security. security are running down here now by the mall, i'm continuing to follow them. this is what happened when they didn't open the apple store. the crowd are getting angrier and angrier. punches have already been thrown. they're still following security. look over here. >> reporter: it didn't start this way. >> i really like. >> reporter: 18-year-old tom was among hundreds who cued in the

freezing cold overnight for the official china release of the apple iphone 4s. this store and n. a popular beijing shopping center was supposed to be open at 7:00 a.m. as the time ticked past, the mood turned sour. then an announcement. the phone would not be sold here today. as people refused to leave, police moved in. so we're here in the middle of the crowd. the police have been thinning them out slowly. and as you can see here now, they're moving in -- they're shouting on the megaphone for people to leave. if you look over here they're trying to force people away right now. those who wouldn't leave peacefully were hauled away by force. >> people are very angry. >> reporter: some people here blame apple, others even holding the united states to account. but anger also directed at china

itself, a country they say too quick to attack its own people, too ready to use force to impose order. >> this is china. we just need -- don't push. the police push us. >> you don't like china police? >> i don't like china police. >> reporter: what should have been a day of celebration has backfired for apple, its customers, even the state itself. stan grant, cnn, beijing. >> over a phone. cnn's silicon valley correspondent dan simon is here just to give us a little context. dan, loon, i mean, i'm the first to admit i have never been in a line for an iphone but i know i've seen the video. americans love their iphones. what's with the obsession with all things a until china? >> well, there are a few things that play here, brooke. first of all, the chinese have an appreciation for industrial design. that's what apple is known for. but more significant than that,

it is seen as a huge status symbol there in china. before these products might have been a available only to the rich but with china's growing middle class they have to have one of these things. they may not be able to afford say a big house or a nice car but they can scrape together enough money to get themselves an iphone. so for chinese people, this is a big sat us the symbol and that's why you're seeing the crazy lines and all that action you saw there today. >> and apple does huge business in china, don't they? >> well, it's unbelievable. it's their fastest growing market in the world. they did $13 billion in sales last fiscal year. the year before they did $3 billion. so it comes down to supply and demand. they just can't make these phones fast enough and, in china, we're really seeing unprecedented demand for apple products, brooke. >> amazing. dan simon, thank you so much. millions of young people say they want to change the world.

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there has been a lot of talk about how much money is being spent on the presidential race but we just wanted to dig through how much each candidate is worth and we're including in this list president obama. we're going to start from the bottom and work our way up. so let me begin with texas governor rick perry. somewhere in the ballpark of 1 to $2.5 million. next, rick santorum, $1 million to $3 million.

congressman, texas, ron paul, just about $2.5 million to $1.5 million. next up we have the president, between just about $3 million and $11.8 million. newt gingrich, this one is a little bit more of a range, between $7 million and $31 million. and jon huntsman, $16 million, $72 million. finally, look at this. mitt romney, between $85 million and $264 million. if you want to see how the candidates' wealth is broken up you can find all of this, just go to cnnmoney.com. and now this. >> i've never had an earthquake in my whole life. >> it was frightening. by the side of the house. >> it was the biggest of 11 earthquakes here since mid march. get this, scientists tell us they think they're manmade. >> you heard poppy right, manmade earthquakes. coming up in two minutes we're going to show you what may be to blame. but first, if you watch this

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in this economy communities are desperate to try to get people back to work. but folks in ohio now fear the promise of jobs could literally bring down all that they value. literally because nearly a dozen earthquakes have hit youngstown since march and there is concern they're caused by waste water

coming in from an industry, the process known as fracking. cnn's poppy harlow visited the town. >> we want to know what's causing the earth quakes. >> reporter: youngstown residents wants answer on why their houses shook on new year's eve. >> it was frightening. >> i thought an airliner crashed on the side of my house. >> reporter: get this, scientists tell us they think they're manmade. >> this is the new year's eve earthquake. >> reporter: seismologist john says the 4.0 quake was likely triggered by this disposal well which injects waste water from fracking and oil and gas drilling at intense pressures. nearly 9200 feet underground. >> injecting this much waste is disrupting mother nature. mother nature in this one case is biting back. >> reporter: the company d and l energy, says proximity alone

does not prove causation. >> channels one, two, and three -- >> reporter: ohio called on armbr armbruster to help figure out what is causing all the earthquakes and closed five nearby disposal welling indefinitely. >> there's possible there's induced seismic activity. that's one possibility. >> reporter: manmade earthquakes. >> correct. but we don't have conclusive proof yet. >> reporter: there are more than 170 of these wells across ohio. we wanted to understand how this process really worked so we're getting a rare look at these massive waste tanks and then how it is all injected dooep de eede earth. >> trucks unloading the two tanks. then it is going through a filter. and then injected down hole. we're putting it exactly where the federal government says to put it. >> reporter: it is mostly saltwater but also a small amount of chemicals from the flack fluid used to break apart the shale. how much waste water is being pumped deep into the earth here?

>> 2,000 barrels a bay approximately. >> i've lived here about 42 years. we've never had an earthquake like that. >> reporter: a proponent of fracking for the jobs it brings to this depressed economy, youngstown's mayor is now worried. >> when you feel unsafe in our own house, when it's a serious situation. >> reporter: the fracking boom is causing huge demand for more disposal well permits. do companies have to do any seismic test before they drill a well? >> no, nowhere around the country. >> all officials are rushing to find out anything that we can do to provide jobs for this area. we have to do it in a sif and environmental way and i don't think so they're doing it. >> reporter: state rep is calling for a moratorium on all injection wells in ohio. >> it would stop the development of the best economic opportunity that's ever presented itself over the past two decades in the state of ohio. >> we need the jobs. but at the same time, the cost of people losing their homes, losing what they've worked for

their entire lives? >> poppy harlow, i can't believe that guy thought a jetliner crashed on new year's eve. i know a lot of trucks are transporting a lot of the waste water from fracking in both pennsylvania -- transporting it from pennsylvania to ohio. is the issue ohio specific or no? >> it's not just ohio. there's been this huge ramp up in the disposal of this waste from fracking in ohio so it's getting all of the attention right now and had that big earthquake on new year's eve but it's happening in other places. in arkansas in the past year they had a rash of earthquakes in an area where they don't usually have them. i spoke to the man who monitors this in arkansas today and he said to me, brooke, quoted nature is objecting to what we're doing. sooff got a lot of scientists in different states saying this is happening as a result of some of these injection wells. not all because there's over 100,000 across the country, but some of them, we heard reports in texas and reports in west virginia. >> much of an economic boom could the oil and gas drilling be for the town of youngstown? >> i think the folks there said

it best when they said this could be unlike anything we've seen here in decades. one woman at a local restaurant said this could really be our next gold rush. there's a study that came out that said by 2015, so in just a few years, 200,000 jobs could be added in ohio alone because of the oil and gas industry. they say bringing in some $22 billion. the question on folks' minds is, at what price. these earthquakes shock them. you've got some concerns about water and pollution. the industry says it's completely clean. it's completely safe. we do this in the right way. and you have an economy that is so depressed they need these jobs desperately. you've got two sides of the aisle on this one, brooke. >> poppy harlow, appreciate it. thank you. as if you needed me to tell you this, just another excuse now for you to play games on your smart phone. coming up next, the story of a man whose life was saved by the popular app, and i know a lot of you play it, words with friends. plus, a 70-year-old man with a new phone -- thanks, guys -- gets booted of the new york

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have you ever played the cell phone games, words with friends. it's addicting. it turns out under the right circumstances it can be a lifesaver. watch this. this is from our missouri affiliate kctv. >> she's the only one i play with. >> reporter: resident beth

started playing words with friendsing on her cell phone more than two years ago. and that's where she met georgi and simon fletcher from australia. while playing the game together georgi mentioned simon wasn't feeling well and described some of his symptoms. beth's husband larry is a doctor. he immediately diagnosed simon and made it clear he needed to get to a hospital. simon had a 99% blockage near his heart. had they not gotten to the hospital that day, there was a good chance he would have died. >> had he not sent that message, i don't think simon would have gone to the doctor that day. >> i'm going to buy that man a beer. he saved my life. i would really like to put my arms around him and give him a big squeeze. >> reporter: two families living half a world apart drawn together by an online game to save a man's life. >> had i'm not had that random

opponent all that time ago -- >> i owe larry everything. i'm lucky to be here. >> reporter: now nearly three months later both families are doing well and, strangely enough, very thankful for the online app game. although they've never met in person, both families now feel like they are lifelong friends. >> once we started talking, we really haven't really shut up. >> real credit for simon is he has a wife that was really kind of following through on things. she was quite determined to, you know, have him seek the care he should have. >> how about that? and from a cell phone app that saves a life to a cell that makes this sound. ♪ i recognize that. perhaps you do as well. this is a ring tone if you have an iphone, hear them all the time. there are a couple of places you really don't want to hear them, like this place. ♪ [ cell phone ringing ] >> the